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I ventured to open it, and
read it in three sittings.
It did a lot to make the
time pass quickly till
they got back. I had "my doubts", when you told me
last May that your next
was to be about a Greek
island, but now I'm sure
you were right. It's fully
up to your best standard,
and the way that the end of each chapter
compels the reader to begin the
next at once is glorious.

How devilish clever of you to get the
conversation with the Greek priest
into a Latin that anyone (even I)
could readily understand! I long
for the Scottish witchcraft tale. When
will it appear?

We're having a glorious
time and a real [underlined] rest. Yesterday
I struck a very large brown trout
in one of the lochs; and he prompt-
ly jumped across Dan's cast (we